in the recent years, increasing production of waste as a result of population growth, increased food consumption, industrial development and urbanization growth, is regarded as a serious challenge. vermicompost, as an end product of urban waste recycling with proper physicochemical features, can play an effective role in plant growth and development and also in reducing harmful effects of vario...

keyvan karkoodi*, saeed khalajzadeh department of animal science, saveh branch, islamic azad university, saveh, iran   *corresponding author's e-mail: [email protected]   received: 12 august 2013 accepted: 21 november 2013   abstract   thirty neonatal male holstein calves fed by starter diets containing ground wheat (gw) or dry-rolled wheat (drw) to 12 weeks of age. skeletal growth ...

Seed yield of alfalfa (Medicago sativa L.) is important in determining the effective distribution of new cultivars to farmers. Many genetic and environmental factors affect seed yield. This study was conducted to explain seed yield variation induced by either environmental conditions or cultivars. We analyzed seed yield, aboveground phytomass, harvest index, and seed yield components for a set ...

in order to study the effect of pyridate, bentazon and imazethapyr herbicides on chickpea growth, nodulation and biological nitrogen fixation, a greenhouse experiment was conducted at ferdowsi university of mashhad in 2010. experimental type was completely randomized design with four replications. treatments included pyridate, bentazon and imazethapyr herbicides application in 1200, 720 and 75 ...

background & aim: in order study the effect of thiobacillus, sulphur and organic materials on vegetative growth and essence production in lemon balm (melissa officinalis l.) was conducted in pots in field condition at shahrekord, iran on 2008. experimental: the factors were ten soil treatments inclusive 200 kg/ha sulphur, 400 kg/ha sulphur, 600 kg/ha sulphur, 200 kg/ha sulphur + thiobacill...

Abstract. Litter decomposition plays a vital role in wetland carbon cycling. However, the contribution of aboveground litter to soil organic (SOC) pool has not yet been quantified. Here, we conducted Carex brevicuspis leaf input experiment clarify intrinsic factors controlling and quantify its SOC at different water levels. The genus is ubiquitous global freshwater wetlands. We sampled this pla...

abstractbackground: previous studies revealed that maternal serum level of vitamin d can influence neonatal outcomes. in this controlled trial, we evaluated the effect of vitamin d supplementation during pregnancy on birth weight.methods: in this interventional study, we enrolled 67 pregnant women (gestation: 10 weeks), who referred to seyyedal shohada hospital during two years (from january 20...

carbon dioxide (co2) concentration of the global atmosphere has increased during the last decades. increasing global atmospheric co2 concentrations are expected to influence crop production. in order to evolution of co2 concentration effects on morphophysiologycal traits in tagets, ageratum and gauilardia, a factorial experiment based on completely randomized design with 3 replications and 12 t...

abstract in order to study the effects on salinity and silicon application on yield and yield components of purslane (portulaca oleracea l.), an experiment was conducted in a completely randomized desgin with three replications and two factors consisted of four different levels of salinity using nacl (0, 7, 14, 21ds/m) and two levels of silicon (application of one mmol sodium silicate and not a...

topping stage of tobacco is a key time for development of agriculture measures to promote the quality of leaves. in order to investigating influence of topping timing and suckericide content on tobacco leaf, a factorial experiment on the basis of rcb design with 3 replications was conducted in 2011 at the tobacco research farm of isfahan. treatments were including topping time (t1: topping at e...